NieR / Drakengard Guía y cronología

These games ask you to act before you understand the full cost of acting. A second perspective can turn a familiar enemy or an apparently generous decision into something much less comfortable. Moving to the next title at the first credits risks leaving that structure unfinished.

There are connections back to Drakengard, but tracing every branch is a different project from meeting NieR's characters. Let the human-scale concern of Replicant or the android conflict of Automata pull you in first. The stranger family history will still be there when you want it.

Choose the NieR Branch and one version of Replicant, then Automata, pursuing each game's continuing routes. If Automata is what interests you, begin there. Use Release order within Drakengard if you later want to discover that older branch as it was introduced.

The Drakengard and NieR groups share earlier material but follow different consequences. Ver1.1a retells Automata for television and makes changes of its own; it is not the next game ending.

• Drakengard Branch (3 entries)

  The Drakengard route that continues toward Drakengard 2; shared earlier games can have consequences outside this branch.

• NieR Branch (6 entries)

  The NieR route connected to a different Drakengard outcome, with alternate versions of Replicant and the later Automata story.

• NieR:Automata Ver1.1a (1 entry)

  The Automata anime retelling, which reworks the game rather than supplying another compulsory game chapter.

The useful first route is Replicant to Automata, or Automata on its own first. Earlier Drakengard stories and alternate Replicant versions should not interrupt a game before you have followed its additional perspectives.

1. 1
   NieR Replicant / GestaltGame · 2010
2. 2
   Drakengard 3Game · 2013
3. 3
   NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139...Game · 2021
4. 4
   DrakengardGame · 2003
5. 5
   NieR:AutomataGame · 2017
6. 6
   Drakengard 2Game · 2005
7. 7
   NieR Re[in]carnationGame · 2021
8. 8
   NieR:Automata Ver1.1aSeries · 2023

A branch connection is not a promise that every ending leads to the next listed title. Release-year labels also do not describe the enormous stretches of time inside these worlds.

1. 1
   2013Drakengard 3Game · 2013
2. 2
   2003DrakengardGame · 2003
3. 3
   2005Drakengard 2Game · 2005
4. 4
   2010NieR Replicant / GestaltGame · 2010
5. 5
   2017NieR:AutomataGame · 2017
6. 6
   2021NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139...Game · 2021
7. 7
   2021NieR Re[in]carnationGame · 2021
8. 8
   2023-2024NieR:Automata Ver1.1aSeries · 2023

Publication order shows the series revisiting its past. The later Replicant release returns to an earlier story, so it can be chosen in that story's place rather than added as a mandatory sequel.

1. 1
   DrakengardGame · 2003
2. 2
   Drakengard 2Game · 2005
3. 3
   NieR Replicant / GestaltGame · 2010
4. 4
   Drakengard 3Game · 2013
5. 5
   NieR:AutomataGame · 2017
6. 6
   NieR Re[in]carnationGame · 2021
7. 7
   NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139...Game · 2021
8. 8
   NieR:Automata Ver1.1aSeries · 2023